He doubts, however, that more local pay bargaining would result in a blossoming private sector any time soon.Closing the public-private efficiency gap is a sound aim.
The de-rating scheme around which Mr Churchill's fourth Budget was built has the sound aim of relieving productive industry from taxes levied in an unsatisfactory and illogical manner, and although it is open to substantial criticism from many points of view, it will in the course of time bring some relief where relief is wanted.
Sticking out, though, is what Stööki Sound aim for.
What Next Big Sounds aims to be is a place where you can go to see how fans interact with music online, virtually in real time.
Harm reduction, much like it sounds, aims to reduce the external risks of street drug use — diseases such as AIDS and Hepatitis C, being among the most common, according to Isaac Jackson, the group's senior organizer.
In the sound design field, aiming for a more organic intersection between sound and images, lots of experimental software and techniques are explored: from using raw images and transforming them into sounds to be used as assets for the sound design itself, to making the moving images alter the sound themselves.
That sounds aimed at Mr Abe, who argues that "the biggest issue for Japan is truly escaping the post-war regime".
"He knows a thing or two about winning elections, take it from me," she added, before a remark that sounded aimed at Bernie Sanders supporters.
It reads gnomically and abstractly, but also evocatively, like a passage from Gertrude Stein's "Tender Buttons" — "Foie Gras — Can't Quit Red Fruit Cabbage Ash West & Smoke Ennio Morricone" — citing flavors, textures, sights and sounds, aiming to prime both the appetite and the senses.
For those who prefer a more homespun sort of sensory manipulation, YouTube is a gold rush of videos devoted to an emerging specialty of creating gentle sounds aimed at triggering relaxing brain tingles, known as autonomous sensory meridian response, or ASMR.
